Example sentences of "[vb past] down to the beach " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rachaela left the house and went to the steps which led down to the beach . |
| 2 | In Alexandria he found that the railway meandered down to the beach and passengers had to find their way on to the trains without any benefit of station buildings . |
| 3 | The King , the Queen and their lords and ladies all came down to the beach to wave goodbye . |
| 4 | The green men in their cloaks of leaves and branches then discovered them , and came down to the beach and circled Dulé and his companions where they lay prone , and shook their fronds and squatted on their haunches and kicked their legs and tossed their heads and slapped palm to thigh , in order to rally them and send them off again ; pouring spirits and water into their faces to invigorate them , beating out a rhythm with their feet . |
| 5 | He drove down to the beach , but did not park near Pepe 's . |
| 6 | Her thinking grabbed her and she raced down to the beach , and followed the rocky shoreline looking for signs of him , but saw nothing . |
| 7 | One January morning , the captain got up early and walked down to the beach . |
| 8 | After a couple of minutes he gave up the attempt , left the tool box by the cottage wall and walked to the edge of the cliff then slithered down to the beach . |
| 9 | I left Kristin and Sabine in the garden talking to the bodyboarding champion of the world and went down to the beach . |
| 10 | I mean , it 's hard to think of an equivalent , but say you were an inhabitant of Hastings in the year 2066 and you went down to the beach one day and these longships were coming towards you and lots of people in chainmail and pointy helmets got out and said they 'd come for the Battle of Hastings and would you rustle up King Harold so they could shoot him in the eye and here was a huge wallet full of money for you to play your part . |
| 11 | William Ryder , 57 , took a bottle of barbiturate tablets from his pharmacy , went down to the beach and swallowed about 500 of them , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 12 | But , as she gazed around at the chintz sofas , and the French-provincial-style velvet-upholstered dining-room chairs — which she could see through a far open doorway — it occurred to Laura that maybe it was the only way to preserve such sumptuous furnishings on a shoreline likely to be damp and salty in the latter part of the year , while , outside the large windows , she could see automatic sprinklers drenching the fine green lawns that ran down to the beach . |